The Penn's Grove record., 1887-02-05
for Infants and Children.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

-Gothamites are said to consume SIX
million barrels of beer every year.
The heads of II Apaches are pre-
served in a museum in an Arizona
town.
One Australian farmer has shot,
trapped and poisoned $4,000 rabbits in
the last year.
The people of Greenfield, Ind, have
made up a purse of S 1880 with which
to drill for gas.
Women are now employed as ticket
agents at the stations on the Staten
Island railroad.
A farmer at Batavia, N. Y, is said
to have devoured thirteen dozen Of clans
during II day.
-Ex.Pre3ldent Arthur was a menu
Der of the Thirteen Club of New York,
and was the first to die.
The largest library in the world is
the Imperial at Paris, which contains
over 100000 volumes.
In the library at the British Muse
um there are over thirty.two miles OF
shelves filed with books.
"A party OF southern capitalists are
talking of establishing a b~eef-canning
factory at New Orleans, La.
Brick Pomeroy writes from London
that English capitalists are spelling to
tunnel the Rocky mountains.
AT Somerville, Mass, a woman has
contributed $4,000 dollars for estab'
fishing a home for aged women.
Rhode Island owes its name to Isle
of Rhodes tRoses) In the Mediterranean
sea, which it is said to resemble.
The number OF daily newspapers in
the United States is over 1900, with an
aggregate circulation of 100000.
Sig. Camimi, a Venetian, is credit.
ed with the ability to speak and write
ninety.six languages and dialects.
H. Peter Jenkins, of Buffalo. re-
Gently made ten wills. After his death
all of them were offered for probate.
-Louisville's colored fair is said to
be a great success, being visited by the
white people as much as the EthiOpIans.
One of Cincinnatl's chief industries
is the manufacturing of lead, fifteen
million pounds of which are made every
year.
All the curIusities in the Chateau
of Langeais, in TOuraine, France, have
been sold. A single statuette brought
$4,000.
Harvard College has LOTT students
this winter, against LOGS last year,
while the university has i,68S students,
against 1862.
"A new colorIng In nature is the
''toboggan complexion" consisting OF
deep red on the checks and canine on
the ears and nose.
Out of the twenty-six Barons who
signed the Magma Charta, only three
could write their names. The remain
der made their mark.
The $4,000 tons of SCOT which are
taken oHt of London chimneys each year
are used for feTtillzing purposes, and
are valued at 5000, 900.
The river from which Connecticut
is named was known to the Indians as
"Quinn'nticut,' which interpreted
means 'tat the long river"
"A Bartlett, On. H. man crawled
under his house to make repairs, bnt got
wedged in so that the nelghbors had to
cut a hole in the floor to release him.
The number of divorces per 1000
marriages. is 4 in London, 10 in Berlin,
10 in Munich, % in Vienna, 25 in Paris,
70 in Boston, and 223 in San Francisco.
"A visit to the sewers of Paris, was
a feature Of a press festival recently heId
In that city. Five hundred persons
availed themselves of the singular pro-
gramme.
Two women in Connecticut-Lucy
Luther, at Hadlyme, and Elizabeth
Buck, at Observation-Disclosures thelr
l03 birthday anniversaries within a few
days past.
Isaac Murphy, the colored Ameri-
can Jockey, is the nearest approach we
have to Fred Archer, his annual earn
lngs being placed at from $1,000 to
$4,000.
The Plonk family in LincOlnton,
N. c., Is long-llved. Joseph is now SO
years old; his sister, Mrs. TetbrOw, is
100 years, and Mrs, Weaver, another
SiotOAs ID AVA 1S"to VI age
The first recorded coal mine in
America was situated near Ottawa, H.,
being discovered and opened in 1869.
1t is estimated that the state contains
o~ne.seventh Of all known coal in North
America.
The word "Califorpia" first occur
red IN a novel entitled "Las Ssrgas de
Esplandian, published in 1910, and
the name was first given to this coun-
try by Bernal Disz Costello, who served
under Cortez.
AT the Presidential election of 1854,
out OF a voting population of -, 792, S07
only 10,038, $40 voted, while 1854, AIS,
Oh % per cent, did not vote. The
greatest percentage Of n~on-voters was
go per cent. in Rhode Island and South
Carolina; the smallest, 7 per cent, in
Indiana.
The Charm of Wearin. Gems.